Jacinto is in love with Natalia, but she wishes for a daring hero and he is not that kind of man at all. Then by accident he is mistakenly believed to be just that. Now he will try to live up to her expectations, finding it quite stressful.

Ángela, a young orphan studying at a school abroad, decides to spend the Christmas holidays in Madrid, at the home of her guardian and closest relative, an unmarried lawyer with a somewhat dissipated life.